CHCH-TV (Hamilton, ON)

(Harry Corro/CHCH News) For more than three decades, Hamilton’s Gandhi peace festival has brought people together around the Indian independence leader’s philosophy of non-violence. This year, the festival looked at what those ideas mean in a changing world, including one increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. CHCH’s Harry Corro asked people there a simple question— what does peace mean to them?

The relationship between Canada and the United States isn’t defined by the current political climate, and that was evident last night in Niagara when the falls were lit up in red white and blue as a show of thank you to the Buffalo Bills for having the Canadian national anthem at their home opener a couple of weeks ago. Ahead of today’s NFL game in Buffalo, Sean Cowan joins us live with all the details.

(Photo courtesy of Latitude Air Ambulance) The search continues Sunday for six people on board a Hamilton-based air ambulance that disappeared while flying from Bermuda to Boston early Saturday. The U.S. Coast Guard has since found debris linked to the aircraft off Nantucket, but says the operation remains a search-and-rescue mission. Harry Corro has more on the search, and the final communications before contact was lost.

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Halton police are asking for the public’s assistance locating a Burlington woman last seen around 1 p.m. Oct. 2. Authorities say 47-year-old Stacey Decyk was last seen on foot in the area of Brant and John streets. Officers describe her as a five-foot tall white woman with a large build and shoulder length black hair. They add that Stacey was possibly wearing an army green hooded sweater.

Niagara police say a 24-year-old man is dead after a single-vehicle collision in Thorold early Saturday morning. At approximately 2:48 a.m., officers responded to the area of Merrittville Highway and Seburn Road for reports of a collision. Upon arrival, authorities located a pick-up truck that had collided with a guardrail. Investigators say the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene.

QUÉBEC — Quebec City police say the death of a 21-year-old man found in a home Friday is being investigated as a homicide. Police identify the victim as Gabriel-Simon Akokane and say he has a criminal record. They say officers found Akokane dead around 11 a.m. while carrying out a search at a home in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste neighbourhood. Police say the search was part of an investigation by the force’s urban violence unit.

An Ontario air ambulance carrying six people, four of them Canadians,
has gone missing off the coast of the United States. The U.S. Coast Guard said it launched a search mission after the Federal Aviation Administration lost contact with the plane early Saturday as it was travelling from Bermuda to Boston. Air and ground crews are searching off the coast of Nantucket, an island about 150 kilometres southeast of Boston, the coast guard wrote in a social media post.

CHCH-TV started broadcasting in 1954 and is proud to be the news leader for Hamilton and the surrounding Halton and Niagara regions.

The Hamilton and District Labour Council and Local Union affiliate gathered outside an MP’s constituency office Friday evening to rally against what they call federal anti-labour legislation. Dozens of workers and supporters stood outside Hamilton Centre MP Aslam Rana’s office. Demonstrators say striking is their right, and they’re calling to stop Bill C-39 and to repeal Section 107.